Despite the often publicised occurrence of residential robberies being accompanied with
additional forms of violence there is a limited amount of research exploring these forms of
intersecting violence, specifically within the South African context. The latest statistics released
by the South African Police Service (2015) indicate that residential robberies are continuing to
increase. The co-occurrence of rape in such residential robberies is under-studied. Therefore, the
aim of this study was to explore and describe a profile of residential robberies that are
accompanied by rape in Gauteng, South Africa between 2002 and 2012. This was done by
exploring the temporal, sociodemographic and situational factors related to reported instances of
this crime. The study consisted of cases obtained by the Crime Administration System (CAS).
The study focused specifically on instances of reported residential robbery, in Gauteng. Overall
there were 68178 cases analysed, with 1104 cases containing instances of reported co-occurring
rape. The initial descriptive results indicated that specific variables significantly influence the cooccurrence
of rape during a residential robbery. Whereby, there has been a significant increase in
the proportion of rapes co-occurring within the 2002 to 2012 period Additionally, binary logistic
regression analysis showed that Black females between the ages of 12 and 17 years are the
demographic group most at risk when other situational factor are additionally present.